By Shaenon K. Garrity

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All the “Brief Moment of Culture” illustrations are based loosely on illustrations from the Oz books, but most of them aren’t especially recognizable as such. The third illustration in this set, however, is based on one of John R. Neill’s most iconic Oz images, this illustration of Scraps the Patchwork Girl. The Patchwork Girl is one of my favorite Oz characters, as readers of Skin Horse have probably noticed. (I also included an oblique Patchwork Girl nod in this scene from Smithson; the work the students are discussing is Shelley Jackson’s hypertext novel Patchwork Girl.)

I felt bad in retrospect having Artie eat the cheese, as I later learned he identified at “vegan”, rather than “vegetarian”, but then I realized he’s not consistent about this himself (c.f. the egg he asks for during the Class Reunion storyline.) And yes, I do think too much about this sort of thing, why do you ask?